"Casteist": Congress Leader On Supreme Court's Verdict On Quota For Poor
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Majority bench - Justices Dinesh Maheshwari, Bela Trivedi and JB Pardiwala upheld the EWS amendment.
Congress leader Udit Raj on Monday called the Supreme Court "casteist" after it delivered 3:2 split verdict on the validity of the Constitution's 103rd Amendment Act 2019, which provides for 10 per cent reservations of the Economically Weaker Section (EWS) in higher education and issues of public employment. सुप्रीम कोर्ट जातिवादी है, अब भी कोई शक! EWS आरक्षण की बात आई तो कैसे पलटी मारी कि 50% की सीमा संवैधानिक बाध्यता नही है लेकिन जब भी SC/ST/OBC को आरक्षण देने की बात आती थी तो इंदिरा साहनी मामले में लगी 50% की सीमा का हवाला दिया जाता रहा। मैं गरीब सवर्णों के आरक्षण के विरुद्ध नही हूं बल्कि उस मानसिकता का हूं कि जब जब SC/ST/OBC का मामला आया तो हमेशा SC ने कहा कि इंदिरा साहनी मामले में लगी 50% सीमा पार नही की जा सकती।
"Supreme Court is casteist, is there still doubt about it! It refused to give reservation to SC/ST, OBC in Indira Sawhney case citing the Constitution's limit of 50 per cent but reversed its statement when it came to EWS reservation," Congress leader Udit Raj said in his tweet in Hindi.
In another tweet, he clarified that he was not opposing the reservation of poor upper castes but was only mentioning the SC's vision in the matter of Indira Sawhney.
